A Focus on Automation and Smart Technology

TheJune 2021 issue of Products Finishingis now available. This month we take a look at Industry 4.0 solutions, automation and new technologies and the role they are playing in the finishing industry – as well as how they might be incorporated more frequently by finishing operations.

Here are a few of the stories in this issue:

• How one company is using a new generationspectrophotometric nickel/pH controller enabled with smart technologyto enable tighter control of the ENi process, resulting in improved product quality.
• A look at anew abrasive process solutions labthat offers finishing operations utilizing mechanical finishing processes a path to automation.
• How using a stabilizer canextend bath life and help reduce process challenges in vapor degreasing systems.

In addition, you’ll find Ask the Expert clinics and technical articles offering troubleshooting advice and best practices, as well as insightful interviews, columns and the latest trends and innovations in the surface finishing industry.

If you have a story that might be of interest to a wide audience of coaters of finishers, get in touch with editor in chief Scott Francis atsfrancis@pfonline.com.